In Our Time: Culture

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 Jul 14, 2020

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Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.


Episode Date
Little Women
Nov 21, 2024
Robert Graves
Nov 07, 2024
Monet in England
Jul 25, 2024
Fielding's Tom Jones
Jul 11, 2024
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Jun 06, 2024
Bertolt Brecht
May 23, 2024
Lysistrata
May 09, 2024
The Kalevala
Apr 25, 2024
The Waltz
Apr 11, 2024
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Mar 14, 2024
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Jan 25, 2024
Vincent van Gogh
Jan 18, 2024
Edgar Allan Poe
Dec 28, 2023
Marguerite de Navarre
Dec 21, 2023
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Dec 14, 2023
Germinal
Nov 23, 2023
The Seventh Seal
Oct 19, 2023
Death in Venice
Jul 13, 2023
Oedipus Rex
Jul 06, 2023
Virgil's Georgics
Jun 15, 2023
Walt Whitman
May 25, 2023
A Room of One's Own
Apr 27, 2023
The Ramayana
Apr 06, 2023
Stevie Smith
Mar 16, 2023
John Donne
Feb 09, 2023
Persuasion
Jan 19, 2023
Citizen Kane
Jan 12, 2023
The Nibelungenlied
Dec 29, 2022
Bauhaus
Dec 08, 2022
Wilfred Owen
Nov 24, 2022
Berthe Morisot
Nov 10, 2022
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Oct 13, 2022
John Bull
Jul 28, 2022
Dylan Thomas
Jul 14, 2022
Tang Era Poetry
Jun 09, 2022
Olympe de Gouges
May 19, 2022
Polidori's The Vampyre
May 05, 2022
The Sistine Chapel
Apr 28, 2022
Antigone
Apr 21, 2022
In Our Time is now first on BBC Sounds
Mar 04, 2022
Romeo and Juliet
Feb 17, 2022
Colette
Jan 27, 2022
Thomas Hardy's Poetry
Jan 13, 2022
Fritz Lang
Dec 30, 2021
A Christmas Carol
Dec 16, 2021
The Decadent Movement
Nov 18, 2021
The Song of Roland
Nov 04, 2021
Iris Murdoch
Oct 21, 2021
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Sep 30, 2021
Herodotus
Sep 23, 2021
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Jun 24, 2021
Edward Gibbon
Jun 17, 2021
Journey to the West
May 20, 2021
Ovid
Apr 29, 2021
The Bacchae
Mar 18, 2021
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Mar 04, 2021
The Rosetta Stone
Feb 11, 2021
The Great Gatsby
Jan 14, 2021
Fernando Pessoa
Dec 03, 2020
Albrecht Dürer
Nov 12, 2020
Piers Plowman
Oct 29, 2020
Macbeth
Oct 01, 2020
Frankenstein
Mar 19, 2020
George Sand
Feb 06, 2020
Catullus
Jan 09, 2020
Auden
Dec 19, 2019
Crime and Punishment
Nov 14, 2019
Robert Burns
Oct 24, 2019
The Time Machine
Oct 17, 2019
Lorca
Jul 04, 2019
Sir Thomas Browne
Jun 06, 2019
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Apr 18, 2019
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Mar 21, 2019
Antarah ibn Shaddad
Feb 28, 2019
Judith beheading Holofernes
Feb 14, 2019
Samuel Beckett
Jan 17, 2019
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Dec 13, 2018
Horace
Nov 15, 2018
Is Shakespeare History? The Romans
Oct 18, 2018
Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
Oct 11, 2018
Edith Wharton
Oct 04, 2018
The Iliad
Sep 13, 2018
William Morris
Jul 05, 2018
Henrik Ibsen
May 31, 2018
The Mabinogion
May 10, 2018
Middlemarch
Apr 19, 2018
Anna Akhmatova
Jan 18, 2018
Hamlet
Dec 28, 2017
Beethoven
Dec 21, 2017
Moby Dick
Dec 07, 2017
Germaine de Stael
Nov 16, 2017
Picasso's Guernica
Nov 02, 2017
Aphra Behn
Oct 12, 2017
Wuthering Heights
Sep 28, 2017
al-Biruni
Aug 31, 2017
Eugene Onegin
Jun 22, 2017
Christine de Pizan
Jun 08, 2017
Emily Dickinson
May 11, 2017
Hokusai
Mar 30, 2017
North and South
Mar 09, 2017
Seneca the Younger
Feb 23, 2017
John Clare
Feb 09, 2017
Four Quartets
Dec 22, 2016
The Fighting Temeraire
Nov 10, 2016
Epic of Gilgamesh
Nov 03, 2016
The 12th Century Renaissance
Oct 20, 2016
Animal Farm
Sep 29, 2016
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Jun 23, 2016
The Muses
May 19, 2016
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
May 05, 2016
Aurora Leigh
Mar 24, 2016
Rumi's Poetry
Feb 11, 2016
Tristan and Iseult
Dec 31, 2015
Emma
Nov 19, 2015
Holbein at the Tudor Court
Oct 15, 2015
Frida Kahlo
Jul 09, 2015
Jane Eyre
Jun 18, 2015
Tagore
May 07, 2015
Fanny Burney
Apr 23, 2015
Sappho
Apr 09, 2015
Beowulf
Mar 05, 2015
Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
Jan 15, 2015
Kafka's The Trial
Nov 27, 2014
Aesop
Nov 20, 2014
Rudyard Kipling
Oct 16, 2014
Mrs Dalloway
Jul 03, 2014
The Bluestockings
Jun 05, 2014
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
May 22, 2014
The Tale of Sinuhe
May 01, 2014
Tristram Shandy
Apr 24, 2014
The Tempest
Nov 14, 2013
Pascal
Sep 19, 2013
The Invention of Radio
Jul 04, 2013
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Jun 27, 2013
Queen Zenobia
May 30, 2013
Lévi-Strauss
May 23, 2013
Icelandic Sagas
May 09, 2013
Montaigne
Apr 25, 2013
The Amazons
Apr 11, 2013
Chekhov
Mar 14, 2013
Decline and Fall
Feb 21, 2013
Le Morte d'Arthur
Jan 10, 2013
Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
Dec 13, 2012
The Anarchy
Nov 01, 2012
Caxton and the Printing Press
Oct 18, 2012
Gerald of Wales
Oct 04, 2012
The Druids
Sep 20, 2012
Annie Besant
Jun 21, 2012
James Joyce's Ulysses
Jun 14, 2012
Voltaire's Candide
May 03, 2012
Moses Mendelssohn
Mar 22, 2012
Benjamin Franklin
Mar 01, 2012
The Kama Sutra
Feb 02, 2012
The Safavid Dynasty
Jan 12, 2012
Robinson Crusoe
Dec 22, 2011
Christina Rossetti
Dec 01, 2011
Tennyson's In Memoriam
Jun 29, 2011
The Anatomy of Melancholy
May 12, 2011
The Medieval University
Mar 17, 2011
Aristotle's Poetics
Jan 27, 2011
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Jan 06, 2011
History of Metaphor
Nov 25, 2010
The Unicorn
Oct 28, 2010
Sturm und Drang
Oct 14, 2010
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
May 27, 2010
Roman Satire
Apr 22, 2010
Munch and The Scream
Mar 18, 2010
Silas Marner
Jan 28, 2010
The Samurai
Dec 24, 2009
Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Nov 26, 2009
Elizabethan Revenge
Jun 18, 2009
The Whale - A History
May 21, 2009
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Apr 09, 2009
The School of Athens
Mar 26, 2009
The Waste Land and Modernity
Feb 26, 2009
The Brothers Grimm
Feb 05, 2009
Swift's A Modest Proposal
Jan 29, 2009
The Baroque Movement
Oct 23, 2008
Dante's Inferno
Jul 03, 2008
The Music of the Spheres
Jun 19, 2008
The Metaphysical Poets
Jun 19, 2008
The Riddle of the Sands
Jun 12, 2008
The Library at Nineveh
May 15, 2008
Yeats and Irish Politics
Apr 17, 2008
The Greek Myths
Mar 13, 2008
Lear
Feb 28, 2008
Rudolph II
Jan 31, 2008
The Fisher King
Jan 17, 2008
Camus
Jan 03, 2008
The Prelude
Nov 22, 2007
Taste
Oct 25, 2007
The Arabian Nights
Oct 18, 2007
Madame Bovary
Jul 12, 2007
Siegfried Sassoon
Jun 07, 2007
Victorian Pessimism
May 10, 2007
Greek and Roman Love Poetry
Apr 26, 2007
Epistolary Literature
Mar 15, 2007
Heart of Darkness
Feb 15, 2007
Jorge Luis Borges
Jan 04, 2007
Hell
Dec 21, 2006
Pope
Nov 09, 2006
The Encyclopédie
Oct 26, 2006
Comedy in Ancient Greek Theatre
Jul 13, 2006
Pastoral Literature
Jul 06, 2006
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Jun 08, 2006
Mathematics and Music
May 25, 2006
Fairies
May 11, 2006
Goethe
Apr 06, 2006
The Carolingian Renaissance
Mar 30, 2006
Don Quixote
Mar 16, 2006
Friendship
Mar 02, 2006
Chaucer
Feb 09, 2006
Seventeenth Century Print Culture
Jan 26, 2006
The Oresteia
Dec 29, 2005
Johnson
Oct 27, 2005
Marlowe
Jul 07, 2005
Merlin
Jun 30, 2005
The Scriblerus Club
Jun 09, 2005
Abelard and Heloise
May 05, 2005
The Aeneid
Apr 21, 2005
John Ruskin
Mar 31, 2005
Angels
Mar 24, 2005
Modernist Utopias
Mar 11, 2005
Faust
Dec 23, 2004
Sartre
Oct 07, 2004
Politeness
Sep 30, 2004
The Odyssey
Sep 09, 2004
The Later Romantics
Apr 15, 2004
The Norse Gods
Mar 11, 2004
The Sublime
Feb 12, 2004
Sensation
Nov 06, 2003
Robin Hood
Oct 30, 2003
Bohemianism
Oct 09, 2003
Youth
Apr 17, 2003
Proust
Apr 10, 2003
Originality
Mar 20, 2003
The Epic
Feb 06, 2003
Victorian Realism
Nov 14, 2002
Cultural Imperialism
Jun 27, 2002
Wagner
Jun 20, 2002
The Grand Tour
May 30, 2002
Tolstoy
Apr 25, 2002
The Artist
Mar 28, 2002
Marriage
Mar 21, 2002
Milton
Mar 07, 2002
Yeats and Mysticism
Jan 31, 2002
Sensibility
Jan 03, 2002
Food
Dec 27, 2001
Oscar Wilde
Dec 06, 2001
Surrealism
Nov 15, 2001
Dickens
Jul 12, 2001
Existentialism
Jun 28, 2001
The Sonnet
Jun 21, 2001
Literary Modernism
Apr 26, 2001
Shakespeare's Life
Mar 15, 2001
Gothic
Jan 04, 2001
Psychoanalysis and Literature
Nov 09, 2000
The Romantics
Oct 12, 2000
London
Sep 28, 2000
Biography
Jun 22, 2000
Inspiration and Genius
Jun 15, 2000
The Renaissance
Jun 08, 2000
The American Ideal
Jun 01, 2000
Shakespeare's Work
May 11, 2000
Death
May 04, 2000
Englishness
Apr 20, 2000
Materialism and the Consumer
Mar 23, 2000
Metamorphosis
Mar 02, 2000
Reading
Feb 17, 2000
Masculinity in Literature
Jan 20, 2000
Tragedy
Dec 02, 1999
The Novel
Nov 11, 1999
Maths and Storytelling
Sep 30, 1999
Truth, Lies and Fiction
Jul 15, 1999
Capitalism
Jun 24, 1999
The Monarchy
Jun 10, 1999
Memory and Culture
May 27, 1999
Multiculturalism
May 13, 1999
Writing and Political Oppression
Apr 08, 1999
Architecture in the 20th Century
Mar 25, 1999
Shakespeare and Literary Criticism
Mar 04, 1999
The Avant Garde's Decline and Fall in the 20th Century
Feb 25, 1999
Language and the Mind
Feb 11, 1999
Modern Culture
Jan 28, 1999
Feminism
Jan 07, 1999
The American Century
Dec 17, 1998
Cultural Rights in the 20th Century
Dec 10, 1998
Work in the 20th Century
Nov 26, 1998
The City in the 20th Century
Nov 12, 1998